By Stefanie Botelho. Many people see the Supreme Court's decision in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin as a substantial victory in the continuing effort to level the playing field of higher ed admissions. More...
30 août 2016
30 août 2016
UBTech 2016: Shaping the future of higher education
By University Business Staff. More than 1,100 campus tech leaders and innovators from across the nation flocked to Las Vegas for the June 6-8 event, descending upon The Mirage Convention Center for three days of insight and inspiration. More...
30 août 2016
Academic publishing in transition
By Deborah Yaffe. Librarians and their advocates are also pushing for systemic change: a transition away from the subscription-based model of scholarly communication and toward open access. This transition to free availability of published research is one librarians say university administrators should work to accelerate. More...
30 août 2016
Open-educational degrees earn $9.8 million boost
By Matt Zalaznick. A few dozen community colleges will get financial backing to design degree programs based wholly on free, open educational resources (OER) in a sweeping effort to make higher ed more affordable. More...
30 août 2016
Shake up employee training in higher ed
By Carol Patton. All higher education institutions offer employee training and skill development in some form or another. Workshops. Webinars. Mentoring. Coaching. It’s the same-old same-old—but does it have to be. More...
30 août 2016
Therapy animals gain campus acceptance
By Stefanie Botelho. Pets can help students cope with stress, depression and other mental disorders. But until recently, this well-documented remedy did not guarantee a space for therapy animals on campus. More...
30 août 2016
Sci-Hub: Piracy platform or publishing change agent?
By Deborah Yaffe. Five years ago, a researcher in Kazakhstan frustrated at the inaccessibility and cost of so many scholarly journals launched Sci-Hub, a website that today provides quick, free access to 47 million articles, often by illegally bypassing paywalls. More...
30 août 2016
Do rising costs equal increased efficiency?
By Deborah Yaffe. Library spending on serials rose 402 percent between 1986 and 2012, according to the Association of Research Libraries, and costs for individual subscriptions rose by an average of 12 percent over the past two years alone, a Library Journal survey found. More...
30 août 2016
Campus Groundbreakings: Wine, convocations and learning gardens
By Ray Bendici. The $9.2 million Wine Spectator Learning Center will be a 14,500-square-foot centerpiece of Sonoma State University’s Wine Business Institute, the only school in the U.S. that offers a wine industry MBA. More...
30 août 2016
Making P3 Work on Campus: Developers weigh in
By Jodi Helmer. Colleges and universities must clearly define their primary objectives and maintain a degree of flexibility with respect to their approach in ultimately determining the business relationship with their private sector partner. More...
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